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19.10.2003 CAPPELLARI AND GOLLIN TAKE THEIR FIRST WIN OF THE SEASON IN FINAL RACE AT MONZA

Luca Cappellari and Fabrizio Gollin took their first overall win of the season today, as although they won the GT class in the Proximus 24 Hours of Spa, they finished behind the Freisinger Motorsport Porsche. Extremely fast all weekend, and qualifying in second place, Gollin took the lead into the first corner, and stayed ahead for all his stint. In the top three for the much of the rest of the race, Gollin retook the lead when the nr 21 Care Racing Ferrari had to stop for a splash and dash in the closing stages.

"It was a great race and I have to thank our engineer Marco Galuppi who made a wonderful strategy, we finished with only 6 litres in the tank but we didn't have to make a splash and dash," Luca explained. "So we won the fight with Enzo and Lilian, with whom we were fighting for the title. Many congratulations to the team who have done a fantastic job all season. We have got to the finish line in nine races out of ten, and my team-mate Fabrizio was very fast." This win also gave Gollin and Cappellari the second place in the Championship behind their team-mates Bobbi and Biagi, after a close battle with Lilian Bryner and Enzo Calderari.

The season started as it ended, with another strong performance by Andrea Bertolini and Fabrizio De Simone putting them on the top of the podium in N-GT. The two Italians took their fourth win of the season, and their third in a row, finishing 9th overall, ahead of the Freisinger Motorsport Porsche. With neither Team Maranello Concessionaires car finishing in the points, JMB Racing have moved up to second in the N-GT Teams Classification, with De Simone finishing third behind joint leaders Ortelli and Lieb, and Andrea Bertolini moving up ahead of Jamie Davies.

"It was a very good result for us, with three victories in the last three races, which is the result of the work done by Pirelli, the big developments of the car made by Ferrari and the work that we put in together with the team," said Fabrizio De Simone."I am really very happy about this; we had some problems during the season that stopped us in the rush for the Championship, but that's OK. I'm very happy for Stéphane and Marc. I think it was very good to come to the race with some chances for the Championship. It was very good; we won the race, we did our work, and that's it." The team's second car, driven by Kutemann and Gosse, also finished in the points, in seventh place.

Pos Car Class Drivers Car Time Laps Gap Avg
speed

1
22
GT Cappellari/Gollin Ferrari 550 Maranello 2:40:08.081 87 188.72

2
21
GT Bryner/Calderari/Livio Ferrari 550 Maranello 2:40:45.625 87 37.544 187.98

3
14
GT Campbell-Walter/Kinch Lister Storm 2:41:50.511 87 1:42.430 186.73

4
9
GT Babini/Peter Ferrari 575GTC 2:40:32.196 86 1 LAP 186.08

5
10
GT Derichebourg/Pescatori Ferrari 575GTC 2:40:46.211 86 1 LAP 185.81

6
23
GT Biagi/Bobbi Ferrari 550 Maranello 2:41:08.437 86 1 LAP 185.38

7
15
GT Piccini/Sterckx/Lancieri Lister Storm 2:41:33.105 86 1 LAP 184.91

8
6
GT Verdon-Roe/Zadra Lister Storm 2:41:34.477 86 1 LAP 184.88

9
52
N-GT Bertolini/De Simone Ferrari 360 Modena 2:40:31.156 83 4 LAPS 179.60

10
50
N-GT Ortelli/Lieb Porsche 996 GT3-RS 2:41:13.468 82 5 LAPS 176.66

11
74
N-GT Jordan/Barff Porsche 996 GT3-RS 2:41:43.485 82 5 LAPS 176.12

12
85
N-GT Khan/Mayall/Neugarten Porsche 996 GT3-RS 2:40:16.263 81 6 LAPS 175.54

13
67
N-GT Spinelli/Sabatini Porsche 996 GT3-RS 2:41:15.700 81 6 LAPS 174.47

14
77
N-GT Fomenko/Vasiliev Porsche 996 GT3-RS 2:40:37.540 80 7 LAPS 172.99

15
53
N-GT Kutemann/Gosse Ferrari 360 Modena 2:40:32.048 79 8 LAPS 170.93

16
38
GT Stanco/Casadei/Soli Porsche 911 GT2 2:41:42.756 79 8 LAPS 169.68

17
7
GT Erdos/Newton Saleen S7-R 2:30:08.121 78 9 LAPS 180.45

18
69
N-GT Ried/Ried/Marcinkiewicz Porsche 996 GT3-RS 2:40:17.674 78 9 LAPS 169.01

19
88
N-GT Davies/Turner Ferrari 360 Modena 2:40:53.829 77 10 LAPS 166.22

20
51
N-GT Longin/Gardel Porsche 996 GT3-RS 2:35:57.513 76 11 LAPS 169.26

21
90
N-GT Saviozzi/Bes/Dupard Porsche 996 GT3-RS 2:40:21.243 75 12 LAPS 162.45

22
2
GT Konrad/Lechner Jr/Seiler Saleen S7-R 2:23:23.973 72 15 LAPS 174.38

23
11
GT Roos/Wallinder Chrysler Viper GTS-R 2:40:52.759 70 17 LAPS 151.12

24
58
N-GT Hiesse/Ermolli Ferrari 360 Modena 2:10:32.385 63 24 LAPS 167.60

25
86
N-GT Felbermayr/Jr/Von Gartzen Porsche 996 GT3-RS 2:15:00.003 62 25 LAPS 159.49

26
37
GT Matteuzzi/Perazzini/Zonca Chrysler Viper GTS-R 1:59:52.410 61 26 LAPS 176.71

Not Classified

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99
N-GT Daoudi/Wolff Porsche 996 GT3-RS 1:25:57.034 44 D.N.F. 177.71

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5
GT Hezemans/Kumpen/Alliot Chrysler Viper GTS-R 1:35:57.233 50 D.N.F. 180.92

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71
N-GT Montermini/Bertoli/Santini Ferrari 360 Modena 2:10:09.149 55 D.N.F. 146.73

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89
N-GT Burt/Mullen Ferrari 360 Modena 2:40:23.973 58 N.C.F. 125.56

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16
GT Kaufmann/Zoboli/Carli Ferrari 550 Maranello 1:23:11.331 42 D.N.F. 175.26

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64
N-GT De Castro/Premoli/Barbaro Porsche 996 GT3-RS 1:22:14.554 40 D.N.F. 168.82

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75
N-GT Jones/Jones Porsche 996 GT3-RS 54:23.225 28 D.N.F. 178.60

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19
GT Gounon/Knapfield Lister Storm 26:20.235 14 D.N.F. 184.05

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18
GT Zwaan/Zwaan/Abbelen Chrysler Viper GTS-R 28:41.101 14 D.N.F. 168.99

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61
N-GT Sugden/Collard Porsche 996 GT3-RS 18:55.756 10 D.N.F. 182.64

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8
GT Coimbra/Ramos/Amorim Saleen S7-R 9:11.334 5 D.N.F. 187.11

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57
N-GT Janis/Pergl Ferrari 360 Modena 4:02.538 2 D.N.F. 167.38